Bandi are one of the companies who run a closed stand at Toy Fairs, which
you have to book-in to, then be escorted round, and preferably you need to be a
toy-buyer, -shipper or -agent, or a member of an accredited journalistic
outlet, not a blagging Blogger!
SD (super deform) Godzilla characters, I really was rushing the shots, and was taken
with the triple-headed dragon, but you can see bits of two others in the
background, deforms aren't 'my thing' at all, but they do come in occasionally
with mixed stuff and some people will love them!
More Realistic Godzilla figures in two
sizes, including the triple-head again in a more realistic form, if anything
fantasy can be realistic, but you know what I mean . . . more accurate to the
movie version.
Godzilla himself, this is the size where
gaming him in 1:76/72nd becomes a reasonable proposition! The funny thing is,
even though he's all modernised and professionally finished as a toy, he still looks like a
man in a rubber suit!
All kinds of Gundam; from teeny SD's to
what I think was a 12--inch monster, with plastic model kits for basher's to
have a go at. I didn't get a good look at the 'weapon-sprue' runners, but
suspect they are not multi-shot 'overmoulds' but rather slot-or-clip-jointed at
the colour demarcations?
Close-up of the super deform, I saw some of
these from the 1970's or '80's a few years ago, and you could see why they are
so collectable, lots of fine detail, in brittle polystyrene or something
similar and lots of metallic stickers, starting to lift at the corners,. To get a
whole one in good condition must be quite hard; this modern issue is a more
robust propylene type polymer and sans stickers!
Again, the more realistic lines of
accurately scaled models, and I think - deliberately - all five display models
are of the same character (the AILE
Strike Gundam), for comparison purposes. If the HG and RG models are
1:144 (as seems to be the case?) that would make the other two eminently
compatible with 1:76/72nd (MG) and
1:35/32nd scales (giant one).
Not much - but a few snatched shots from
the 'inner sanctum' of Bandai's
stand!
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